The peace process has failed, Yasir Arafat has died and the iron fist policy put in place by Ariel Sharon has led to the nearly total defeat of the Palestinian national movement.
The seven patients in whom the initial treatment demonstrably failed have all died.
His own emporia faded or failed, but Roberts, who has died aged 70, never lost faith in his medium, and in retirement painted scenes of Kings Road boutiques in the 60s.
Nothing is known about what happens to the children when a family's migration project fails, especially when it fails because the migrant worker has died.
Harold Camping, the American preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast that the end of the world was nigh and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays failed to come to pass, has died aged 92.
Its investigation of Uganda's internal wars was also flawed; it indicted five members of the Lord's Resistance Army, a bloodthirsty rebel force (one of whom has died), but failed to hold state forces responsible for their misdeeds.
As the political ambitions of the Rev Ndabaningi Sithole, who has died aged 80, failed one by one, he descended irretrievably down the political ladder of Zimbabwe.
After a youthful flirtation with television, a near-disastrous relationship with Hollywood and a failed marriage, the actor Anne Bancroft, who has died aged 73, fled the west coast and returned home to New York.
A UK-born American journalist held by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen has died after a failed military operation to rescue him, US media reports say.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harold Brown, who as defense secretary in the Carter administration championed cutting-edge fighting technology during a tenure that included the failed rescue of hostages in Iran, has died at age 91. Brown died Friday, said the Rand Corp., the California-based think tank Brown served as a trustee for more than 35 years.
